डिसीनेपाल डटकम संवाददाता - अमेरिकाको नेपाली संस्था "एशोसीएसन अफ नेप्लिज ईन अमेरिका (ANA)" मा चरम बिवाद उत्पन्न भई परदेशमा पनि नेपालीले नेपालीलाई "मुद्धा" हालेका छन् । यहि अगस्ट ६ तारिखका दिन हुन गईरहेको संस्थाको नयाँ कार्यसमितिको चुनाव रोक्का गरिपाऊँ भनी एक पक्षले अमेरिकी अदालतमा दर्ता गरेको "मुद्धा" उपर हिजो अदालतले दिएको आदेश बमोजिम ANA को चुनाब रोकिएको छ । निर्वाचन समितिका डा. सुदिप श्रेष्ठ, अन्तरिम कार्यसमितिका अध्यक्ष छेबांग शेर्पा लामा, अध्यक्ष पदका उमेदवार धिरेन गुरुङ र निवर्तमान अध्यक्ष सिमोन ढुंगाना ४ जनालाई बिपक्षी बनाई म्यारिल्याण्ड राज्यको जिल्ला अदालतमा दर्ता गरिएको "मुद्धा" उपर अदालतले छानबिन गरि आवश्यक प्रमाण/कागजातहरू र Attorney (वोकिल) लिएर अदालतमा ऊपस्थित हुनु भन्दै विपक्षीहरूलाई १० दिनको म्याद दिएको छ ।
ANA को नयाँ कार्यसमितिको चुनाब त रोकियो रोकियो । अब १० दिन पछि, अदालतमा दुवै पक्षका वोकिलहरू बीच पटक पटक "बहश" हुनेछ । अदालतमा बहश हुँदै जाँदा संस्थाको बोस्टन शम्भेलनको घाटा रकम बयासी हजार डलरको जिम्मेवार को थियो ? भन्ने बारेमा पनि बहश हुँदै गयो भने सम्मेलनका आयोजकहरू (सारा नेपाली) अमेरिकाको कानुनको घेरामा तानीने छन् । नेपाली संस्थाको अध्यक्ष पदको हानथापले गर्दा अमेरिकामा बस्ने नेपालीहरू बेकारमा जेल जानुपर्ने अवस्था नआउला भन्न सकिन्न । किनभने अमेरिकाको कानुन एकदमै कडा छ (अमेरिकामा कानुनले राष्ट्रपतीलाई पनि छोडदैन) । कानुनले दोषी साबित गरेमा, हत्कडी लगाएर थानामा थुनेर ग्रीनकार्ड भएकालाई देश निकाला (Deport) गरेर नेपाल लखेटीदिन्छ र नागरिकता लीईसकेकालाई चाहिँ अमेरिका कै जेलमा हालीदिन्छ।
अमेरिकाका नेपालीहरूले एक आपसमा यस्तो समस्या खडा गरेको बारेमा, डिसीनेपाल डटकमले अमेरिकाका लागी नेपाली राजदुत डा. शंकर प्रसाद शर्माको धारणा माग्दा राजदुत डा. शर्माले भन्नुभयो:-
"परदेशमा नेपालीहरू एक आपसमा मुद्धा हालाहाल किन गर्ने ? दुवै पक्षले छलफल गरेर (Negotiation गरेर) मिल्नुपर्छ, समस्या-समाधानको लागी मैले देखेको उपाय: डिसीको अमेरिका नेपाल सोशाईटी (ANS) को चुनाबमा खेम भट्टचन र बिष्णु कुमारी थापा मिले जस्तै ANA मा पनि त्यहि तरिकाले मिले भैहाल्यो" भन्नुभयो ।
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Posted on 08-05-11 3:32
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The original post is a bit idiotic. This looks to me like purely a civil case, and yet in the purely stupid gorkhali journalism style, the author goes on talking about jail, deportation and what not... The author needs a crash course in journalism and court system in the US... WTF...
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Posted on 08-05-11 3:37
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I don't know the answer to all your questions but here is what I know. Maybe others can fill the gaps.
- Simon Dhungana's two-year term (2009 - 2011) expired at this years ANA convention in DC. Elections for the next president were not held at this years convention (reasons vary depending on who you ask)
- Prahlad KC was declared the new President by a group of people including some life members at a meeting that was not authorized by the official ANA executive that was in place at that time.
- Simon Dhungana handed over authority to Chhewang Sherpa Lama upon the expiry of him term. Lama was to head an interim executive committe till the new President was elected.
- The new interim executive went about compiling a list of voters and candidates.
- List of voters and candidates published that included team UNO and Revitalizing ANA
- Lawsuit file by KC and others. I don't have the details of the lawsuit and I am as much in the dark as you are about the specifics (as are many people it seems). If I were to guess a preliminary injecture must have been sought to stop the elections citing irregularities or violations of by laws by the interim or past executive. As I said before, maybe DC Nepal or other news organizations can get details for us. Or if there are ANA insiders reading this, they might be able to shed some light. My guess is the defendents have hired a lawyer and filed a request for disclosure. The citation notice they received might also have some information.
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Posted on 08-05-11 3:40
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This email came from dcnepal.com and nepalhorizons.com on June 16, 2011
Dear Members and Well Wishers of ANA,
Mr. Raja Upadhyay, who has conducted each and every Election for ANA since about late 1980's or early 1990's was unanimously nominated by the Special General Body Meeting of May 01, 2011 to be the Chief Election Commissioner with independent powers vested in him, as per the past tradition of ANA. He was provided with three other individuals to assist him in conducting the Election. These other individuals were not given independent powers. They were to help the Chief Election Commissioner whenever asked for, on as needed basis.
Mr. Raja Upadhyay and the team had duly announced the election process outlining the modus oparandi of nomination, sending out and counting the ballots. A PO Box was rented near the site of ANA Convention in Virginia. However, since the nominated list of candidates for the five Officers' position had no eligible contestants in competition, except one person for each of the five positions, the chair did not need the help of the other individuals in his team. The election chair, therefore proceeded, rightfully, as he had done in the past, to declare the uncontested individuals elected by acclaim. We heartily thank the Chair of the Election Commission and the individuals members of the team supporting the chair.
All the Elected Officers are veteran ANA members with a long history of community service and deserve our congratulations, good wishes and cooperation in the task ahead of uniting ANA. We have known each of them personally for decades and can vouch for their integrity of character, good judgment and devotion to work for the betterment of Nepalis in the Americas in general and now for ANA, in particular. They cover North-East, Pacific-West, Central Canada, Atlantic South-East, and West Virginia, a true cross section, as it happens, of our North American continent.
We also wish to state that the Membership Verification Committee did an outstanding job. Each and every one of them deserves our praise and deep gratitude for the hard work done without compensation.
President elect Mr. KC and his team have advised us that they will work to accommodate other interested individuals in the ANA officers or executive team after the ANA convention in Washington DC, and after following a due process.
We wish to heartily congratulate the following newly elected officers who will serve a two year term: 2011-2013.
PRESIDENT: Mr. Pralhad KC; Boston, MA
VICE-PRESIDENT: Mr. Roger Adhikari; Tracy, CA
GENERAL SECRETARY: Ms. Radha Basnyat; Ottawa, Canada
TREASURER: Dr. Gambhir Shrestha; Tallahassee, FL
INFORMATION DIRECTOR: Dr. Tulasi Joshi, Fairmont, WV
We request the current ANA president and officers, all members and well wishers to help the newly elected leadership team in their work of uniting ANA and helping the association serve its members and the Diaspora community in North America.
We look forward to seeing you all in the ANA Convention in Washington DC.
Sincerely,
Past Presidents
1. Dr. Hari Sharma
2. Dr. Kamal Pathak
3. Dr. Kunjar Sharma
4. DR. Amar Giri
5. Pramod Sharma
6. Krishna Nirola
7. Amrit Tuladhar
8. Naveen Dutta
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Posted on 08-05-11 4:16
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Master mind behind the team who filed lawsuit is Dr. Shambhu Dhungana from Los Angeles. He is current president of Friends of Nepal (FON) in Los Angeles, CA.
Both Shambhu Dhungana and Pralhad KC are members of NRN - America Unity Collaboration Team. Radha Basnyat is also member of NRN.
Is NRN trying to creep inside ANA and take over ANA? ANA has already established a brand name sort of and is the most popular Nepali organization in the USA.
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Posted on 08-05-11 4:18
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Nas, You hit it right on. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I think everyone shares the blame but this really comes down to a group of mostly old-timers and life members who want to keep the ANA in their conrol and not open it to the kind of people who are running for the now stopped elections. They are more comfortable with someone like Prahlad KC rather than Dhiren Gurung or HB Bhandari or even Simon for that matter.
As for financial irregularities, it is not like somebody stole 80,000 dollars from the cash-box in Boston and stashed it under their mattress. That is a myth perpetuated for political reasons that some gullible people have bought into. What happened, from what I understand, is the hotel sought to renegotiate the contract at the last minute threatening to cancel the convention. The ANA team responsible for the venue, lead by Prahlad KC, basically panicked and signed off on a whole bunch of new charges without fully figuring out what they were getting into. When the convention was over and the numbers were crunched, they ended up with way more expenses than they ever imagined because the hotel now ended up costing several times more than they had planned. Call it negligence, laziness or plain stupidity. That opened the floodgates for ANA politics and the old timers used that loss as a stick to beat Simon with. Sadly, Simon, instead of owning up as the head of the organization, threw his Vice President and Convention Chair Medini Adhikari under the bus holding him responsible for the poor oversight. Medini Adhikari in turn ended up passing the blame to the co-convenors and the Boston team. The Boston team then passsed the blame back to the national ANA. So there is plenty of blame to go around.The supreme irony of all this is Prahlad KC actually tried to exhonerate himself from the situation by joining hands with the past presidents and is now in the midst of a lawsuit that might ending up showing way more culpability on his part.
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Posted on 08-05-11 4:38
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Ana Whistleblower, nice one. Maybe the court should call this case Dhungana vs Dhungana :) However, I think this is more a case of old guard versus new blood rather than east versus west or anything else.
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Posted on 08-05-11 5:06
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IS NRNA ready to sacrifice its name and fame for its Senior VP?
Bijay Thapa ,2011 ANA General secretary candidate
Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) is becoming a common name for its association led by Mr. Suman Timsina in the United States of America. NRN-Association/America (NRNA) has seeded hope to all Nepalis in America for the betterment of Nepal and Nepali through this organization. NRNA is doing great jobs in its mission since its very short life of inception and gaining tremendous credibility among Nepalis diasporas here in the US. Unfortunately,in case of Nepali organizations,as the name and fame of the organization rises due to their incredible jobs,some chair bugs always come into the scene and ruin the name and fame of the organizations. Those position hungry people forget about all the morals and try to grab the position at any cost despite disagreement of the majority. Such action eventually leads the organization into either dysfunctional or disappearance from the community.
We are seeing the same situation in NRNA. This is an open secret that the appearance of Mr. Prahlad KC in the position of Senior VP was very controversial. Without any doubt Mr. KC hijacked this position in a very shameful manner. Still dedicated members and well wishers of NRNA accept him for this position just to protect the growing public support to this organization. This is unfortunate for NRNA team that Mr. KC’s same unethical and shameful strategy to hijack the President position of Association of Nepalis in Americas (ANA) without letting other practice democratic election is jeopardizing the name and fame of NRNA.
Mr. KC and his team shamefully declared themselves as elected Offices or ANA when all the Nepali communities in the US know that ANA election is still underway and will be over in August. His team declared themselves ANA Officers and in the same time ridiculously boycotted the ANA DC Convention 2011 at Chantilly,VA. Mr. KC,Sr. VP of NRNA,blamed this Convection as illegal,unauthentic and with no public support. Except him all the NRNA executives authorized ANA DC Convention and participated with successful NRN forums. Now the question is:where does Mr. KC stand in NRNA? More than 3000 Nepalis participated in the ANA DC Convention,and Mr. KC is saying the convention has no public support. Thousands of ANA members are willing to participate in the democratic ANA Election 2011,and Mr. KC and his team are proudly claiming that ANA belongs to these handful people and rest are not ANA members.
Now,it is crystal clear that Mr. Prahlad KC is a problem in Nepali community. He created problems in NRNA,now he is creating problem in ANA. If all the NRNs don’t find a cure for such a problematic character in NRNA,NRNA will no doubt face grave challenges in the near future that may lead to the formation of another NRNA in the US. It is the choice of NRNA Executives whether to get rid of this rotten potato or all get rotten to be permanently discarded.
Bijay Thapa ,
2011 ANA General secretary candidate and
A well wisher of NRNA
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Posted on 08-05-11 5:09
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Raja Upadhyay Suspended as Chair of Election Committee
June 18, 2011
Mr. Raja Upadhyay, who has long served ANA primarily in the role of Election Committee Chairman has been suspended by ITFANA for his role in recent election. While he was out of country, according to him someone sent out email from his home email address announcing winners with his knowledge. He has not answered question on who sent the email, when he had ready internet access himself in out of country or why he decided to do so unilaterally when a day earlier the Election Committee had unanimously decided to halt election activities. He put the integrity of the Election Committee in question and has raised suspicion of other candidates. Therefore as per the notification of ITFANA, Raja Upadhyay has been suspended from his role as Chair of Election Committee of ANA and the matter may be pursued with any recourse chosen by ITFANA to uncover any anomalies and irregularities. Raja Upadhyay can request Executive Board of ANA to reinstate his position as Chair with documented explanation on the questions raised.
The Special Emergency Meeting of Executive Board of ANA unanimously approved and upheld jurisdiction of ITFANA on:
a. Next ANA Election until its conclusion.
b. Financial matters of Boston Convention until its completion
c. ANA/ NECC affair until the title is transferred.
d. 29th ANA Convention in DC until its conclusion
e. Lawful action to respond to anyone or any situation against ANA
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Posted on 08-05-11 5:12
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Gandhi’s three and ANA’s five (5) monkeys
Gandhi’s three monkeys are one of the best moral lessons: “Do not see bad, Do not speak bad and Do not hear bad”. These days USA is in high heat due to the election in one of the oldest Nepali organizations named ANA. Since this is a Nepali election, we can see various types of monkeys but impossible to find Gandhi type of monkey. These election monkeys always see bad in opponents. They speak so negative for other candidates’ supporter and they don’t want to hear any criticism about themselves.
We have recently seen five such monkeys during ANA election. One monkey who is from Boston Zoo is not only a jackass but also very stubborn. Normal monkey breaks things only; this abnormal monkey breaks law, rules, moral values and humanity. Unlike normal monkeys, this monkey wants to grab everything from everybody.
The second one is the California monkey. Like Dozer this monkey wants to have everything in bulk. This monkey does not know that in bulk one always gets crap. Dozer minded this monkey when does not get higher position from competition, wants to snatch the lower position and runs away. In this character, this monkey even beats most of the Swayambhu and Pashupati monkeys.
There are two silent money’s from Canada and Florida, however, this Virginian monkey thinks he is the most brilliant among all other monkeys. But his jungle education does not apply to the civil society. Therefore, all those five ANA monkeys want to establish Monkey Raj in ANA. But they don’t know Nepalis are familiar with all sorts of monkeys and are well trained to get rid of all those monkeys.
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Posted on 08-05-11 5:15
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A Lesson Mr. Pralad KC Must Learn
It is so unfortunate to have ANA's bone to pick with Mr. Pralad for the betterment of society. Could you look straight in your nearest and dearest one's eyes and speak with a forked tongue two more times? I bet you; you can't. It is because a quality people with good values, integrity, and a little feeling never visibly gets blossomed on such fabricated story. I know you are better than this sir. Once Shiva Khera told" It is not how much you eat that matter, what matters is how much you digest." Therefore, please do not kick up such a fuss about your game that nobody digests.
Unfortunately, you did blunder by instigating people who are busy as grand central station for ANA's convention. And you are whistling for prestige as ANA's president! And, you are as happy as a lark in your own world on the horns of dilemma. And why why why you could not dare to fight in election by convincing ANA's members by stopping all hemming and hawing. Therefore, Mr. Pralad, your self -declared team worth next to nothing until it is tested by people. Such naïve and baseless statement might prove you and your team incompatible for any national organization for the future too. It is ill- assorted cosmic irony to thank ANA's members and ridicule them at the same time. It would sound better if you would have written "self generated life members from family of seven living in North America." In this light, I challenge you to show 242 life members' paid receipts including your own publicly. If President Obama and Governor Boby Jindal can show their birth certificates, dare to show life members' paid receipts to prove your integrity! In return, I can demonstrate at least 20 ANA members' paid receipts and won't forget mine. Now it is crystal clear that you directed their name to be excluded on your so called "verified list" and you quickly plunge into and penetrate such extremist, autocratic act of declaring yourself a "president".
Everybody can tolerate clash in ideas in a democratic process. But, the lick and promise that you have been relying on currently does not last long. Believe or not, personally, I don't want all the e-mails generated by your group including this one not having any other ruse than a semantic mugging with a purpose becoming self declared leaders in North America welcoming all ignominy possible. The cold reality is that you and your team don't have believe on own leadership. Do you? Now, I won't be surprise if you declare yourself the president of universe with the same 242 self created life members in the midst of bylaws interpreted in your favor only because you are their long time friend. . What a utopian society you are dreaming for sir. Come on, wake up now and prove otherwise! Husband your energy and face challenge with all presidential candidates in a debate to be held in DC convention to persuade members with your agendas and defeat all of us in a real election. Let's learn a lesson of a democracy and transparency before it is belated for the advancement of our society!!! Plus, do not forget to read A. Pope's mock epic A Rape of a Lock over summer.
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Posted on 08-05-11 5:31
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"I won't be surprise if you declare yourself the president of universe with the same 242 self created life members in the midst of bylaws interpreted in your favor "
Ha ha ... well said, Hari B Bhandari. Maybe you and Dhiren Gurung need to join forces and file a counter lawsuit ;)
Prahlad KC's behaviour is truly tragic. This is a man who came to the US as a student, struggled a lot and through his hard work and a bit of luck did well for himself and his family. Instead of rising above the fray and displaying a spirit of generosity that you would expect in someone with his success, he has chosen to take the low road of pursuing power at any cost.
I can only hope the court rules againt him and he will realize that if he wants to be the leader of Nepalese in America, he has to work with the people he seeks to lead, engage them, win their hearts and minds, persuade them, inspire them instead of trying to get to the top through back-room manouverings.
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Posted on 08-05-11 7:42
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It is time for all of us to BOYCOTT this criminal organization for once and all. Why can't all those mushrooming nepali youth organizations unite and come together to form something similar to ANA. I am sure it will serve better and cater to the needs of the students and nepalis alike.
And for the perpetrators of embezzlement, I sincerely hope that they go to Jail.
MAGA and all how do you feel about Trumps cabinet pick?
Those who are in TPS, what’s your backup plan?
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